Since December 2023, over 15 senior People’s Liberation Army officers have been purged, including General He Weidong, Xi’s own deputy, who was ousted in 2025 for alleged corruption.

The issue has grown in salience following the outbreak of the COVID-19 pandemic in Wuhan, China — a city with a high-security lab with ties to the People’s Liberation Army.

It’s about seizing and owning a city as a battlefield, not as a place for people to peacefully protest. These Marines are not being set up for success, and I can only imagine that this thrown-together ...

BEIJING, June 15 (Reuters) - China's military held joint sea and air patrols in the South China Sea on Saturday, a spokesperson for the People's Liberation Army's Southern Theater Command said ...

MORGANTOWN, W.Va. — Saturday is the 250th birthday of the United States Army and commemoration of the the 25-day, 600-mile march to Massachusetts to battle the siege of Boston in Shepherdstown ...

As tensions rise in the South China Sea, China’s submarines will have their work cut out for them. The People’s Republic of China continues to make the expansion of its naval fleet a top priority.

While military deterrence primarily lies with America as Taiwan’s largest military supporter, European states have a meaningful role to play. Each time China holds military drills around Taiwan, the ...

Chinese military folks have never been great communicators. For most of the 15 years that Banyan reported from Beijing, the only way to seek comment from the defence ministry was to send a fax.

Xu Qiliang, a former air force general who was reportedly close to Chinese leader Xi Jinping, has died at age 75, according to the Defense MInistry.

Top Chinese general Xu Qiliang, a close ally of President Xi Jinping who was the former vice chair of the powerful Central Military Commission, died of illness at age 75 on Monday in Beijing ...

The U.S. will neither be pushed out of the Indo-Pacific nor allow its allies to become subordinated by China, U.S. Secretary of Defense Pete Hegseth said in Singapore. Speaking at the ...

As a competitor to the U.S. Air Force’s B-21 Raider and the People’s Liberation Army Air Force’s H-20 stealth bomber programs, the Russian Air Force’s PAK DA platform is expected to host ...